Remarks by David Lowery
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Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes, sir. Thank you. Any others? Sir, come on up. While he's coming up, we'll... After the public commentary and we're able to vote, just so you know, we're going to take a five-minute recess, or maybe ten, depending on how long the bathroom lines are, before we get started. We'll give everybody a bathroom and a stretch break. It's a long meeting, so... We'll take a break here in just a couple minutes. Sir.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“He's swapping the batteries out in it. Harold, the IT miracle worker.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right. Any other public comments on 4B? If not.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes. All right. So can we close out this piece of the public hearing now? All right, we are closing out item 4B, the second part of the public hearing at 8.02 p.m. Central Time. Let's take a 10-minute bathroom and stretch break and we'll reconvene. Testing, testing. All right, there you go. All right, everybody, let's hunker down for part two. Hopefully this second part will flow. Hope everybody had a chance to stretch and do a comfort break if needed. We have, if you're looking at the agenda, we've gone through 4A and 4B, and we're now to the consent agenda. The consent agenda consists of…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Unanimous consent. Second. We have a motion and two seconds. Thank you, all three gentlemen. discussion for these consent items.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“So just to be clear, we will be authorizing the FLOC contract termination. The 12.5K that is in the budget will have to stay there until you are able to clarify there is no withdrawal fees or anything like that in the contract. But when that's done, those funds will return to the general fund.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'm sure they'll have about 411 municipalities from across the state doing the same thing. All right.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“So we have a motion and a second. Any discussion needed tonight for these six agenda items?”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, sir. And I saw our fourth volunteer, our fourth speaker. Come on up.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, sir. All right, anyone else? I'm gonna stay. Gina. Thank you for your assistance, ma'am.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes, ma'am. Anyone else? If not, city manager, call the roll, please.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes. All right, we're on old business number 11, final reading of ordinance 1191, amending rules of procedure. This would be the rules of order for the city commission to do.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, City Manager. I'm going to ask that we table this. I would like the new City Attorney to be able to review this. Also, as I went through it, I noticed that literally none of my inputs that I asked to be put into this were incorporated. uh... the input that i got from mister jackson our prior attorney was he reviewed it but all he basically saw was commissioner wark's input to him uh... so what i'd really like to do is for us to go through this again i would like the new city manager assuming the new city attorney to be involved as well and do one more scrub on this before we bring…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I want to table it until the new city attorney can review it. There are a couple of Robert's Rules of Order type things in there where it's kind of a big gray area. And I would like to have my inputs actually reviewed as well. And then if any other commissioner has any other thoughts or inputs, I would really like those contributions as well to be brought up and looked at. So table it for now until we revise and have the new city attorney look at it.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, sir. Second. Thank you, ma'am. I have a motion and a second. Any public commentary regarding this? If not, thank you. City Manager.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes. Thank you all for that. I want us to have a really good product we're all proud of. So let's fine tweak it a little more and we'll be good to go. We tabled number 12 already because that's still a work in progress between Commissioner Peebles and our new city attorney. So we're on new business item number 13, discussion and possible approval of resolution 2026-08-579, final stormwater assessment.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“So two quick things on this, and I wanna open this up and get inputs from the whole commission. This is one opportunity, Commissioner Perna already mentioned this earlier. This is one area.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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Commission · Sep 8, 2026